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...will be another obstacle in the path of Crimson success. Master was barely edged out for all-Ivy honors last fall by the Crimson's Tom Bagnoli. He filled in very capably at inside for a few games this year, but the return of Garces will probably allow coach Cliff Stevenson to keep him in the goal. Master made 36 saves against the Big Red, an incredible total...
...Ford Show (NBC, 9:30-10 p.m.). Tennessee Ernie Ford, featuring the Top Twenty singing group and Guest Cliff Arquette...
Occasionally they receive a letter from their soldier nephew, Cliff, whom they had raised since he was orphaned as a child. But Cliff is as emotionally tongue-tied as his aunt and uncle: his prosaic letters might as well be coming from nearby Cincinnati instead of distant, mysterious, embattled Korea. Then the comfortable, cozy pattern of the days is shattered by a War Department telegram reporting Cliff missing in action. Alma passionately insists Cliff is alive and will return; she decides to write an account of his life. "It would be a kind of family thing." she tells her brother...
Alma questions the neighbors about Cliff and at first gets the expected tame responses. But Faye Laird bursts unexpectedly into tears and her dotty old mother insults Alma. Wealthy, widowed Mrs. Barrington clearly knows more than she will say. Strangest of all are the talks with epicene Willard Baker and the peculiar young man who lives with him. As rumors build slowly into facts, Boyd impatiently tries to stop Alma from digging into events that "should have been for gotten long ago." But Alma is a woman who must finish what she starts, and she rips frantically at the curtain...
...grew up in her house, another telegram confirms his death in battle. "I only loved him," she mourns. "I never knew him." But to love someone is enough. Mrs. Barrington tells her, "that's all we dare hope for in this life." The "record" of Cliff's life, containing only a few tentative sentences, is wrapped in tissue paper and locked away in a drawer. Boyd and Alma, who have now become "permanently and very old, their correct age." sit in the dark staring out at the quiet of a summer evening that holds the scent of azaleas...